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1watt commented on the blog post Despite Sequester F-35 Fighter Boondoggle Remains Funded
Sure hope we don’t have to use them in a rain storm.
The F-35 is unable to fly within 25 miles of a thunderstorm because engineers believe it could explode if struck by lightning
And don’t even mention missile defense.
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1watt commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair by Ruth Calvo.
Damn Ruth, you ask a lot of questions.
Turkey Vultures are the bird of Spring. Did just spot the first blue bird of the year this morning.
Wild persimmons bloom first, if you don’t count the witch hazel and hazel nut which bloom in January. -
1watt commented on the blog post Administration May Tap Strategic Petroleum Reserves After Run-Up in Gas Prices
The last time Obama released the reserves the majority of that oil was purchased by JPMorgan/Chase and immediately put back into storage.
The US has a glut of oil in storage at Cushing, OK. plus there are dozens of supertankers being used for storage offshore.a little fact about the corn harvest: 2012 was the largest planting in history, even counting the drought, the projected harvest is the 8th largest in history.
It’s the banksters…..
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1watt commented on the blog post The Mergers & Acquisitions Man
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1watt commented on the blog post The Mergers & Acquisitions Man
His primary objective will be to sign over the National Forests, Parks, and all related mineral rights to his privateering peers.
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1watt commented on the blog post CPD, FBI & Secret Service Claim NATO 3 Came to Chicago to Commit ‘Terrorist Acts of Violence’
Time to revisit the “Shock Doctrine”.
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1watt commented on the blog post Obama Announces Expedited Review for Southern Half of Keystone XL Pipeline
Maybe because there was no news to report.
It is illegal to export crude oil from the U.S..
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1watt commented on the blog post Obama Announces Expedited Review for Southern Half of Keystone XL Pipeline
Cushing has a glut of oil, the pipeline from Cushing to Freeport is to allow domestic oil to be shipped to East Coast refineries to ease gas prices there.
New oil production in the midwest has overwhelmed the capacity to store/utilize that oil in the middle of the country.
This pipeline and the reversal(plan to ship oil south to ports instead of north from imported oil) of the existing pipeline are for domestic consumption.
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1watt commented on the diary post Sunday Food: Home Made Pepper Spray by Ruth Calvo.
a 1/2 teaspoon of horseradish clear the sinuses nicely.
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1watt commented on the diary post Sunday Food; Pizza Rules by Ruth Calvo.
apple pie is a serving of fruit.
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1watt commented on the blog post Late Night: The Strategic Corruption Reserve
I would like an interpreter to decode this for me:
http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/klbna.php
is it still possible to bring this to trial?
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1watt commented on the blog post GOP’s Political Warfare: Long-Term and Virtually Unopposed
I have been running across references to ALEC these last couple of days. Very interesting. Someone with resources should expose the members.
http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/15/alec/
Telling Your State Legislators What to Do:
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)The most important group, I’m pretty sure, is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which was founded in 1973 by Henry Hyde, Lou Barnett, and (surprise, surprise) Paul Weyrich. Its goal for the past forty years has been to draft “model bills” that conservative legislators can introduce in the 50 states. Its website claims that in each legislative cycle, its members introduce 1000 pieces of legislation based on its work, and claims that roughly 18% of these bills are enacted into law. (Among them was the controversial 2010 anti-immigrant law in Arizona.)
If you’re as impressed by these numbers as I am, I’m hoping you’ll agree with me that it may be time to start paying more attention to ALEC and the bills its seeks to promote.
You can start by studying ALEC’s own website. Begin with its home page at
http://www.alec.org
First visit the “About” menu to get a sense of the organization’s history and its current members and funders. But the meat of the site is the “model legislation” page, which is the gateway to the hundreds of bills that ALEC has drafted for the benefit of its conservative members.
http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Model_Legislation1You’ll of course be eager to look these over…but you won’t be able to, because you’re not a member.
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1watt commented on the blog post Loughner’s Conspiracy-Fueled Rampage Has Origins on the Fringe Right
http://hubpages.com/hub/Jared-Lee-Loughner-Whos-to-Blame
sovereign national language.
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1watt commented on the diary post Sunday Food: The Market Bites by Ruth Calvo.
you’ll notice that food prices have jumped since all of that money chasing profits in mortgages has gone to the commodities markets. The greedy bastards are buying & selling every bushel of grain 10 times. Each sale generates another level of pricing. The bankstes won’t be denied. They aren’t satisfied with the profits they make [...]
